Friends, this stuff baffles me on many levels. All around the nation various local media outlets are reporting on this massive influx of people getting tested, or trying to get tested, for COVID-19. Miles and miles of people suddenly lining up for COVID tests everywhere, it’s weird.
The media is pushing the testing aspect hard right now and hitting the Biden administration for not having a federal system in place to facilitate this massive influx of people needing COVID tests. Without a doubt, that narrative is why Biden told the media today the states have to solve the issue on their own. [More on that later]
In the interim, I asked the question on the Twitter about why people would be lining up for hours to get a COVID test now. What’s the reason? Most of the responses are generally of the same mindset as the original question with people also wondering why. I can identify only a few generally valid reasons, and even then, something still doesn’t make sense.
♦ Some people are required to take a test for work, and with the mandates now beginning to kick in, that seems to make sense. However, does this mean people have to stand in line for hours before every shift? [feel free to chime in on this one]
♦ Some people are required to take a test to travel to a destination that requires a negative test. Again, that seems to make sense, I guess. However, it still seems silly from the perspective of testing is unlikely to stop any infection that can happen at any given moment.
Other than ‘being required’ to take a test for the two reasons above, why would anyone take one?
Why would perfectly healthy people, asymptomatic people, line up to take a COVID test? Is this a reflection of mass delusion as a result of government and media driven fear?
Seriously, what gives?
This response from the line in Orlando, Florida seems nuts:
“Well, I’m heading out of town to Kentucky to visit some family, and I hear omicron has really picked up and is spreading pretty fast,” Orange County resident Dave Roseford said. “So I wanted to go ahead and make sure I had the best guard against that.” (link)
So ‘Dave’ is not sick, doesn’t feel sick, is going to visit people 500 miles away, and wants to find out if he’s COVID positive? Because why?…
Then there’s this response, which is even more nuts, but I appreciate the brutal honesty:
“I can answer this because I live in the Lib Death Star known as Brownstone Brooklyn. They are doing this to tell friends and family whether they are ‘safe’ to be around. It’s an elaborate handshake among the Covidians.” (link)
The White House previously attempted to gain some political advantage with the COVID Omicron panic by declaring “a winter of death” awaits the unvaccinated. It appears to me this administration is now going to reap a massive amount of backlash over a panic they created. Once again proving the axiom that every statement, policy or recommendation, that Joe Biden advocates is the exact opposite of what should be done.
The White House has ordered 500 million test kits for them to distribute saying, “In cases where infected people show symptoms or not, testing is the only way to find out if they have the virus so they can avoid being out and about and potentially spreading the disease.” This would imply the only reason to test is to find out if you are infected, yet if you are asymptomatic (not showing symptoms) then why test?
Could it be the hysteria cannot remain in place if there isn’t a new layer of fear of some sort? As Jordan Schachtel notes: ” COVID cases are the engine of COVID Mania. Take away the testing, and the “crisis” disappears. See: every single nation in the world that doesn’t test widely for COVID. They’re doing just fine with the “plague” issue.”
Let me ask you, what’s going on around your town?
Is this madness and ‘Winter of Death‘ hysteria visible around where you live also?
I suspect there’s a segment of the stupid people who want to be tested to find out if they have the rona or not, simply for purposes of chitchat or to feed their hypochondria.
Kinda’ like the appeal of opening up a fortune cookie.
I’m not aware of testing situation in SE Arizona. People are masking up again. They may be primarily the snowbirds. Seeing more out of state plates in town than the usual snowbird/holiday influx, probably because of problem with airlines.
I agree with you 100%. The fearmongering had perfectly healthy running to be tested.
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Can we shame these people enough?
It really is an I.Q. Test. The masks, testing, vaccines, 6 ft distance.
One could make much money with a box of q-tips and a few glass vials.
There might be something to that hypochondria angle … my decades-long GP retired at the end of last year, driven out I think partially by the wu flu craziness. He’d always suffered an excess of candor at times and once, oh, 10, 15 years ago I’d asked him “what percentage of your patients are hypochondriacs, present company excluded” and without stopping to think about it, replied, 40%. I’d known him long enough to know, he wasn’t kidding and based on my experience with him, he was likely being conservative. The summer before he hung up his stethoscope, I asked him if he’d had anyone die of the bat flu and he said “two– but they were going to die anyway.”
MASS PSYCHOSIS – How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL 21:48
I’m glad this video has been posted a few times over the last few months.
I think it’s the most insightful, and informative, and important piece ever.
That video was amazing. Now of course I need to find the Academy of Ideas and send out this link to everyone I know.
THANK YOU.
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Craziest thing about all this is THE TESTS DON’T WORK , THEY NEVER HAVE . Even the W H O had to admit it recently .
They have to get rid of all the test (PCR) kits before Friday. They lose the EUA at midnight on Friday.
Well, there will be a new test from the Gates/Soros venture that will be able to detect the “vaccine” and produce a negative test result. All others of course will be positive results. Then they’ll have their basis for the “War on the Unvaxxed”. They will never give up. FJB and Fauci too!
Denver Metro – mask hysteria and general COVID paranoia on a huge upswing. Went from 5% building residents in masks to 80+% almost overnight. People masking between bites at restaurants and alone in their cars. It’s insane. Today a masked mom (and child) said they would wait for the next elevator once they saw my selfish maskless face. There is really no other reason, it’s a big elevator and was otherwise empty. I was waiting in a lobby recently where there was a local news station on the tv. Non-stop fear mongering for the 10 minutes I was there. Ugh.
Yes, this is weird and yes this is “Mass Psychosis”. About 40% of Americans are under this spell. Waiting all that time for a test for this mild virus is insane. The test results are moot 2 minutes later anyway. Half of this country is brainwashed.
Brainwashed pansies…
Your ‘half’ is an under-estimate !
I can only imagine that all of those people lined up are feeling mild cold symptoms otherwise it is insane to line up for testing – what is the point. Even if they having symptoms it is pointless when you consider that doctors will not prescribe any early treatments. They want people to get sick and end up in a hospital so they can make more $$$$
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If you dont have covid when you stand in a line to be tested, you could probably get covid from just standing in line (unless you are in your car)
The simple answer is that a “spirit of fear” has been allowed to run roughshod over people for nearly two years. One of the main institutions, churches, could have put a halt to this by firming addressing the issue. Instead in invited the “Spirit of Fear” in .
BTW this is the 4th time since 2004 that testing (PCR) has been used to create an epi/pan-demic. This is a casedemic that was used to build up the “spirit of fear..”
Scary how many sheep exist in this country!! On par with the Nazi’s extermination of the Jews with very few resisting. Doesn’t bode well for the future of America.
Mass hysteria here in Ohio. I have cold/flu, can’t get into a doc without testing so went to 3 Urgent Cares – all packed, then ER – also packed. I spent 8 hrs trying to get antibiotics for a cold that turned into bronch/pneumonia. I refused to get tested and boy oh boy they were pissed.
Best to order online and keep some antibiotics in your medicine cabinet. Even fishmox is better than 8 hours waiting in a crowded ER.
Manuka Honey (1 tsp. am and another tsp. before bed)
or
homemade Hydroxycloroquine from youtube recipe
^^^^That is what a friend of mine has had to resort to after testing positive and having nasty symptoms. She asked for Monoclonal Antibodies, but was denied. Her Dr. simply told her that she was holding onto MA’s for someone who was more “at risk”.
The drumbeat of (overinflated) deaths has gone quiet as the overhyped flu has turned into an overhyped cold.
Therefore only chance the communists have to retain and continue crazy policies is if “COVID cases” remain high, hence the push for more and more testing. All testing, especially PCR (with its insanely over-tweaked 40 cycles) is prone to false positives by design.
High caseload allows for restrictions of movement, forced vaccinations, and of course the fear mongering of “overwhelming hospitals.”
I think someone should put that poor cat out of its misery.
Answer is no. In AZ. If someone wears a mask, it’s odd.
If you think I don’t watch the the the ones who does? Worried.
I do believe in mass hypnosis.
Lord help us.
Omicron has not been identified. Testing positive for Omicron using the PCR test (which has been used since November 26, when Omicron was first announced) is an impossibility. Just sayin’…
They all have told me they cannot tell a variant. I call testing places to schedule a variant test, it has never changed. Even our local hospitals have never changed the answer.
I tell my friends they should all call around to hear it from the testers.
They “estimate” omicron infections, based on genetic sequencing of samples sent to the lab.
No doubt, the results are being truthfully, honestly, and dripping-with-earnestness reported.
uh, huh…
“Could it be the hysteria cannot remain in place if there isn’t a new layer of fear of some sort? As Jordan Schachtel notes: COVID cases are the engine of COVID Mania. Take away the testing, and the “crisis” disappears. ”
This is precisely why testing is necessary. In fact the old tests doesn’t even pick up the moronic variant very accurately. Many false positives. Think cold. It will buy them some time. Remember the movie “The thing ” According to CNN medical advisor, Sanjay Gupta it’s coming to a movie near you. ( World war C)
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yes and take away the MSN and social media and the “crisis” disappears as well. The overwhelming majority of Americans wouldn’t be aware of the “pandemic” if not for the gov and their propaganda comrades in the media.
I have had at least 3 major exposures. I never tested. I stayed home a few days (10), did not get sick, and no one in my home got sick from me. What would testing have done, even if I had it and knew and was asymptomatic? They would have told me to stay home for a few days, and if I didn’t develop symptoms, and no other family members got sick. to test again after those few days and then go back about my business as usual. A waste of time and money. (I am retired so staying home was not a problem for me)
I live in Georgia. I’m a Tech contractor (I&C Design). In a couple of weeks I’m being transferred from working at home to working at a customer site. I’m required to either get the clot shot (ain’t happening) or test once per week to prove that I’m Coof negative. Does anyone know A) When this madness ends, or B) Are these home test kits accurate (a day without work = a day without pay)?
So you don’t mind putting a known cancer causing carcinogen (EO, or Ethylene Oxide) in your nasal cavity? They use EO to sterilize the swabs.
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/NMHhk/8/
Tompkins County, NY
Since September, vast majority of covid deaths are vaxxed.
Active cases are now below 1200, from a high of over 2600, 5 days ago.
(5 days, hmmm)
Note the curious pattern of daily tests that reflects the surveillance testing policy of the Cornell campus where the outbreak took off.
Students are now on break. Number of daily tests have dropped from thousands daily to hundreds. Is the drop in active cases because the students have left the county?
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/RQxem/337/
Full data:
https://tompkinscountyny.gov/health/factsheets/coronavirusdata
Imagine, if you will, a VIRUS, so crippling, so utterly devastating, that one needs to be tested to find out if you have it.
The next stop is the Emergency Room known as…the Twilight Zone.
When I glanced at Sundance’s twitter page yesterday and saw the many examples of huge lines of people wait for CV testing, my response was” What the heck is this about? I wondered what I had missed.
I have no idea what this is about nor have I seen wait lines (not saying there aren’t any).
I am baffled, too.
Sheeple flocking.
1). They made everyone a hypochondriac.
2) Since micron is the new unknown, CV 19 isn’t, so testing for it satisfies the fear factor giving people a secure sense of not being sick and fitting in to the new features of society and workplaces.
Glad I’m retired.
I don’t live in fear.
In Louisville – One of my kids has to get one in order to be able to attend a NY Eve party in Sh**cago. One of my SILs had to get one due to someone showing up on their job site with the bug. Local lsm is ramming the testing and the jab/re-jab down our throats 24/7, along with the local hospital leadership. They provide the scary numbers but as usual fail to give any context around them. Noticed in Xmas Eve Mass more people wearing them but between the scratching underneath and the constant repositioning, I am almost positive that they are causing more harm than good.
I am appalled that someone would want to go to a party so badly that would subject themselves to a medical experiment in order to do so. That’s the problem with wanting to “fit in”. People would do ANYTHING to “fit in”.
Why not just self-quarantine instead of being tested?
My ex daughter in law insisted my son get a negative test before seeing his daughter at Christmas. He has had Covid. He was not sick at all. So he did. EVERY PHARMACY in Ann Arbor was out so he had to get an appointment out of our area.
I would not have visited and avoided the test. But that’s just me.
The testing mania is the identical twin to the morons who drive around in their car wearing a mask. They are scared sh*tless, and everything that comes out of the Biden cabal’s mouth feeds that fear. It is, as you said, mass psychosis. The people need a strong leader telling them the truth and encouraging them to back to their normal lives. That will not happen until Biden is out of the White House.
Another reason is some liberal family members demand grandparents and other relatives have a negative Corona virus test before they will let family members and grandkids visit. My sister’s two married children demanded that she and her husband get both shots and now the booster shot before they could visit or even be around their grandkids. My sister had a really bad cold a couple of weeks ago and they all were fearful it was corona and ordered her to get tested before the grandkids could visit for Christmas. Thank God it was negative or she would have gone through Christmas without seeing her grand kids. It’s like a bribe or holding them hostage.
Her family is evil.
Its not just a bribe or holding them hostage. It is pure unadulterated evil.
“Thank God it was negative”
But still needed to put Ethylene Oxide into her head. Very dangerous and could be trouble down the road.
It would only be rational if there some cheap over the counter remedy you could go get if you tested positive. But those cheap effective remedies have been banned.
I have crazy friends that have had 2 shots & a booster, wear masks, are not sick & yet they worry that they might get someone sick. They get tested constantly, I wish they would just stay home and turn off their tv & fazebook.
Why are they your friends?
I belong to several mother/baby birth groups.. there are so many delusional people! Mothers are voluntarily getting 2 month old babies tested “just in case”… insanity.
Well, it might have been evident here in the west suburbs of Indianapolis, but wasn’t for me. I say it might have been, which I will explain.
Yesterday I had outpatient surgery. My surgeon, who’s a fine doc and the only one of the various docs I go to who’s paying any attention to masking beyond what their employers, a county-wide medical-industrial complex, require. OK, so be it- at this point, I just want to get my back repaired, so this vaxed, non-boostered, wu flu recovered patient will mask up if it keeps this moving along.
I had gotten a phone call last Wednesday, six days before the surgery that “the rules have changed and you have to have a covid test before the surgery”. So I found myself the following day driving to a location of the medical-industrial complex and being the only guy in the drive thru test line at 9AM.
The nice lady gives me the test and in response to my observation that it must get kind of boring with not much, apparently, to do, she tells me “we had 190 yesterday and about the same on Tuesday.” At a brisk 2 minutes a test, that’s roughly 6.5 hours worth and we know it didn’t go that fast. Did I luck out on the line? Unknown, but after I’d chatted with her a few minutes, no one had pulled in behind me.
Where I live is about a 2/3ds rural county but the town has a lot of gubmint employees (the state’s police training academy (so don’t let the high volume of gunfire and tire squeals throw you 🙂 ), two prisons (including Mike Tyson’s former home, the other being ‘juvi’), the end of the runway at the airport is six miles from me and many of the folks who work there are neighbors, plus the usual encrustation of local government) so that perhaps has something to do with a test rush around here. However our Karen density is pretty low elsewhere in the county by my observation. It’s a curious situation certainly.
We have a contagion of media/policy driven mass hysteria among the congenitally mindless moronic minions hence the destruction of America as we once knew it.
There’s a lot of ignorant people out there.
They give test kits out free at our local library here in Arizona. Steady stream of concerned citizens in their cars waiting their turn. It’s hilarious!! The test giver-outer cannot just hand you the test because of some reason (health issue??) So you drive up, open your hatchback if you got one, or the giver-outer just sets it on your bumper so you have to get out of your vehicle to get it and put it in your car. This is even more humiliating than wearing the diaper IMHO. It’s really entertaining. My wife and I watched for 15 minutes, had a ball.
Over the Christmas weekend I had a bad cough, congestion etc. and went to an Urgent Care facility in the town where we were visiting family. There was a long wait time, but everyone was courteous. It seemed that at least half of the folks were there to get a Covid test for travel, and they were required to pay for the test ($100 plus) before receiving it. I had assumed that these tests were free….apparently wrong. Is this the norm all over the country? When my turn came to go in to the exam room, COVID test was the first thing on the list. The test was negative for COVID and that was reassuring because of being around lots of family, but I believe insurance will cover my test. It seems to me that if the government is requiring negative tests for travel, the government should supply and cover the cost of such tests. Does anyone have more information about this topic?
You know, someone IS paying for those “free” tests…
A large corporation in CA has told their employees not to return to the office for 2022. This is after they said to return in Oct. The largest complaint I am hearing from business owners is, they have become the COVID police trying to enforce all these guidelines. If you are tech, you can work from home, if you are a restaurant or service industry, you have to enforce.
CDC, May 2020: 14 studies say masks don’t stop flu transmission
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids (36). There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
Even Dr Michael Osterholm, head of infectious disease department at U of M, says cloth masks do little to nothing. He wants us all to N95.
more people wearing masks but that seems to be it in the great state of Montana… 🙂
oh brother…I see this up in Prescott Arizona its gotten very zombie like! what is really sad to me is you could wear a hazmat suit and there would be a run on hazmat suits!
North Texas here (NOT DFW area)….we’ve been over that craziness awhile now. Very few places insist on masks and nobody cares about being hypochondriac bait
This Omicron spreads like a cold and the testing is really, really not accurate.
So understand you will get it, vaccinated or not and the best thing to do is get yourself prepared for the inevitable. If at risk, get supplies now. If not, treat it like a cold.
Picked up a prescription at a pharmacy in LA yesterday. Right behind me were two young Asian/Chinese people speaking English with an accent; i.e., not Americans (age early 20’s). They were inquiring about Covid testing …not the vaccine but testing. Don’t know if they were coming or going from where-ever they came from … maybe here for the beginning of college term and need proof to get into class?
I have a great-niece in MD who was tested at her school (daycare) as she is 4. Do not know why she was tested as she has no symptoms. Anyway she was quarantined over Christmas and the grandparents were tested (neg) so they could go to other daughters house for Christmas.
One girl I met recently said her Aunt Karen made everyone get a test before coming over for Christmas.
“Is this a reflection of mass delusion as a result of government and media driven fear?”
Yes, the fearmongering has driven the “scream at the sky” crowd over the cliff.
In Hennepin county MN all county buildings have mask requirements even though there are hardly any people in them. Libraries are good examples. Big open building with a dozen people quietly walking around maintaining distance. What in the world is a mask that doesn’t work do in that situation? I got yelled at “mask up, mask up” when I walked in with my nose uncovered. I told them no and I heard audible gasps from the few people in there. Picked up my book and left.
This is about mass hysteria/paranoia……think ‘War of the Worlds’ on steroids………….
If you have to test to see if you’re sick ~ you have more problems than Omicron to worry about !
Delusional people stoked with fear think the test is the cure.
No one is questioning how accurate the tests are. They could be ramping it up to create false positives.
My liberal siblings just informed me that I’m not welcome to a gathering they are planning unless we all get a negative COVID test first. The gathering will take place at my mother’s home. I have been taking care of my mother for the past two years since COVID while they stayed hunkered down in their homes, supposedly safe, leaving all the work to me and never once saying “Thanks for caring for mom while we do nothing cuz we’re scared of COVID.” I am not vaccinated or boostered. My choice. My mother, who is 87, is vaccinated. Every other person who is going to the gathering, about 10 of them, all immediate family, are vaccinated and boostered. Um, so do you not believe in the efficacy of your jabs/ boosters? Are you really worried about MY health?
So, I am not going to the “family” gathering. Their loss!
Update on Covid testing uptick in St. Louis as of 12/28/21. I spoke to a nurse practitioner today. She said the car line for Covid testing is back to the level when Covid testing started. Long, long lines.
We have a fifth amendment which says there shall be no taking of private property for public use without just compensation.
Bodily fluids (swabs) are private property. Companies are doing this by threat, duress and coercion in MANY cases. Where are the Constitutional lawyers?
The reason for increased demand around here for in-home test kits is that families are gathering and nobody wants to be blamed for grandma and grandpa getting sick, therefore they need evidence to prove it wasn’t them. Yeah, this is my family. The side issue also involves anyone with school age kids and all the baloney involved with being in proximity to someone who tested positive. Symptoms or not it is a hassle to be identified as covid positive when you are involved in a state supervised anything, like a public school. Just as a side note if you read the test kit instructions you need to test yourself twice to confirm a negative. WTF? No instruction on what happens if you test negative the first time and positive the second time. Just another way to make us crazy. Unplug everyone. We must stop participating.